This early Bay Area cityscape by Adams is significant not only because of its rarity and deviation from his landscape-based oeuvre, but in that it provides a possible insight into early influences of the young photographer. Made in 1937, just months after the completion of the Bay Bridge, the composition bears a striking resemblance to Alfred Stieglitz’s “From Room ”3003” - The Shelton, New York, Looking Northeast, 1927”, with the Adams even mirroring the direction of view. Adams had visited An American Place in New York and met Stieglitz in 1933 making a lasting impact on the 31-year-old artist and perhaps inspiring this view of his own city.